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Kate Smith La Palina Cigars...
...University of Chicago, where he spent one year, he had gone into his father's Philadelphia factory, had broken up a strike by taking these girls out to lunch. Still, he did not think much of the cigar business. Nevertheless, he set out to advertise La Palina cigars, traveled all over the U. S. and Europe introducing Java wrappers into respectable society. His campaign was successful and he supplemented newspaper advertising with radio. In 1928, partly with La Palina's profits, he bought Columbia Broadcasting System...
...week, because receipts at Manhattan's Franklin Theatre, where she was singing, had jumped from $8,000 to $16,500. While Singer Smith is at Keith's Theatre in Washington next week, RKO will pay line charges for her radio program, for La Palina Cigars, to the Columbia Broadcasting System, rival to RKO's National Broadcasting...
...William Samuel Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System used him to lure Camel's cigaret advertising from National Broadcasting Co. Kate Smith's story is another one based on tobacco. Her 240 Ib. and an easy, tricky way of singing had scarcely identified her with musicomedy when La Palina cigars snatched her up for a sum appropriate to her size. Joe White ("The Silver-Masked Tenor"), Jack Smith ("The Whispering Baritone") and B. A. Rolfe (Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra) prove that the dial works two ways. They are yesterday's capable headliners now without sponsors...
...Congress was made president of Porto Rican, President William E. Waterman of Waitt & Bond was made chairman of Porto Rican-a new office. Porto Rican makes Ricoro, La Restina, Portina, El Toro and other cigars, also El Toro Cigarets which are mostly sold in Porto Rico. Congress makes La Palina Cigars; Waitt & Bond makes Blackstones...